Quotes about Belief

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

Imagine how much a man's life would change if he trusted that he was loved by God.

Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort.

I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.

For so much of my life I had been defending Christianity because I thought to admit that we had done any wrong was to discredit the religious system as a whole, but it isn't a religious system, it is people following Christ; and the important thing to do, the right thing to do, was to apologize for getting in the way of Jesus.

The problem with Christian belief—-I mean real christian belief, the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell--is that it is not a fashionable thing to believe.

People are looking for a philosophy they can embody or a series of steps they can take to solve their problems.

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something. If you are passionate about something, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe.

Not having a clear call to action is the equivalent of telling customers you don't really believe in your product and don't think that product can solve their problems and change their lives.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them, she realized, that the world collapses in on itself.